Sep 18, 2016 12:51
8 yrs ago
Slovak term

špirálové a lichobežníkové vlysy

Slovak to English Law/Patents Law: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright
Please can you clarify what this phrase means:

Listom úradu zo dňa .... bolo prihlasovateľovi oznámené, že prihlásené označenie predstavuje len jednoduchý tvar fľaše (fľaša kruhového pôdorysu valcového tvaru so zúženým hrdlom, ktorá je približne v strede svojej výšky zúžená, pričom spodná časť fľaše obsahuje nepatrné *špirálové a lichobežníkové vlysy*), bez akýchkoľvek výnimočných prvkov, ktoré by spotrebiteľ pri výbere tovaru postrehol. Navyše, takýto obal výrobku s ohľadom na tovary, pre ktoré je prihlásený, sa bežne vyskytuje na trhu a teda označenie v takejto podobe nemá rozlišovaciu spôsobilosť ...

'Vlysy' - 'friezes' - I would take this to mean 'horizontal bands', except that they can't be horizontal if they're spiral.

'špirálové vlysy' - spiral bands?

'lichobežníkové vlysy' - as I understand it, 'lichobežník' is a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides ('trapezium' in British English), but I can't really picture what they mean by 'lichobežníkové vlysy'.

Discussion

Peter Kolarik Sep 19, 2016:
trapezial - could be that the groove or frieze is of a trapezial shape with one side missing, the top one; the groove is clenched in with sides being to the bottom part in more than 90 degrees..
Linguists (asker) Sep 19, 2016:
"Špirálové", judging by the pictures I've seen, refers to a spiral going round the bottle.
I've used 'trapezial' as a provisional translation of 'lichobežníkové', but I still can't really imagine what it means.

Proposed translations

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spiral grooves and impressions with trapezial profile (UK)

spiral grooves and impressions with trapezial profile (UK English)
spiral grooves and impressions with trapezoidal profile (US English)
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https://www.mathsisfun.com/quadrilaterals.html
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/trapezium
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The US and UK definitions of trapezoid and trapezium are swapped over!
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I do not call the trapezial impressions 'grooves' because they are so large on the pictures furnished by Jitka. I am still not clear about how the spiral grooves look, but this doubts applies to the Sloval text as well.
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you. I partly used your answer, with the word 'trapezial' (British English), though it still isn't really clear to me what it means. I enclosed 'trapezial' in inverted commas because it seems a rather quirky use of the word."
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spiral and trapezoidal friezes

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Note from asker:
Thank you. Judging by the pictures, the grooves (which are only visible at the edges of the bottles) seem to be spiral (slanting, diagonal) and straight (horizontal).
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